I've used local models and they just tend to screw up more often in my experience. But I'm also more focused on having agents do long running tasks which small models just aren't good at.

Well then Alibaba needs to get better at it cause the Qwen models have kinda sucked in my experience.

The reason things haven't fallen apart is because there's a lot of devs working a lot more than they used to making sure they're patching vulnerabilities. Last year if you asked me what portion of my time was spent updating dependencies and responding to reports of vulnerabilities I'd say like 5-10%, this year that's easily more like 30%

I'm sure not every company is doing this, but depending on the sensitivity of the data the company is holding I'd imagine you'd see similar patterns elsewhere

Subscription services or software restricted features for cars should just be outlawed entirely.

Nobody likes these, if someone is willing to deal with a subscription product then they can do that aftermarket. The car itself should never come with something that will require recurring payments.

Not sure why it would be unexpected? 8.1 was not a good OS from a UI perspective, but it was the last version before Microsoft went all in on making Windows a service and not a product you paid to use.

They still had the incentive to make the OS better and faster. I remember videos from Microsoft at the time showing how fast Windows 8 could get to the desktop compared to 7. They don't really even try to work on stuff like that anymore.

Well your first mistake was using Chrome in 2026

If you have to run power to it, you might as well run some data as well. Never really the best idea to have mission critical equipment at the mercy of a congested wifi network.

"please come to the office so you can experience the time crunch without the comfort of your own home"

I get why people are having trouble defending them but it's really not cool that Mojang is pushing to enforce their own personal requirements on self-hosted servers. It's one thing if it was an official server or hosted on realms or something, but this is just a bit too far in my opinion.

And given the recent pivots by tech companies in the US there's very little reason to think this same set of rules couldn't be applied to groups like trans people in the future.

It's better to push back on this sort of stuff early, instead of waiting for it to personally impact you once it's already built up momentum.

Okay but, installing an apk is not the kind of thing a scammer does. They'll just install some standard off the shelf remote access software from the play store

This very much feels like they just needed to come up with a new justification for this process and opted for scammers for some reason. Even though they're completely disconnected

Smear campaign or not, their marketing and social media presence is aggressive and obnoxious on purpose. It seems to be purely focused on getting as many eyes on them as possible without actually considering what those eyes will think of them after getting the desired attention.

When I think of PETA I don't think of an organization with strong moral and ethical principles, I think of an organization that made a bunch of tone-deaf video game parodies in the 2000s to try and get attention. Those are wounds that are entirely self-inflicted.

They didn't really need to specify the bf is a top when they ended the post with a keyboard smash

I kind of wonder how a company with such an iron grip on SSO can't manage to be profitable. That and I literally saw a job listing from Okta last weekend, so they're probably just trying to replace their tenured high cost employees with cheaper workers.

It's hard to feel any sympathy for the guy at this point, he went from odd eccentric file sharing site founder, to adware distributor, all the way to misinformation spreading conspiracy theorist.

well, they did say they were in a rush

Jesus that's a lot of spaghetti code, and why are they hardcoding a bunch of terms? Is this just for a public facing site, or does every deployed instance effectively filter these out?

You're gonna need to sit down for me to tell you about NAND prices

Took long enough - at a certain point Nvidia's pricing just to get CUDA doesn't make sense when compared to the cost of just investing in ROCm and OneAPI.

All they had to do was find the right balance, but apparently they decided to see how much money the printer could make...

It's still just installing software

I'm not sideloading an app onto my desktop when I download an appx file from GitHub to install something instead of using the windows store, having a special term for installing an apk file outside the play store just obscures what's happening